• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

NETRA HS and Enduro series

robertaccio

robertaccio

Husqvarna
Pro Class
Would someone in the NE zone please add some color other than orange to these NETRA races, cmon the top ten in both series are consistantly all on KTMs with the occaisional Husaberg (Yel/Blu Kato) in there ..........

http://www.netra.org/
 
I had # 1 plate in Senior in 2011.....cut me some slack I could not race much this year

There is lots of Orange and very few (read as almost none) Husky Dealers there and most only new guys to husky.
 
Well, if I could ride, I would add a yellow and blue Husaberg to the enduros. Hopefully I will be ready for next year's enduro series.

I need to get another Husky ready for the woods and vintage mx.

There is a bit too much orange. Personally, I prefer KTM over jap bikes. It would be cool to see a KTM dressed up in some old green like the Pentons.
Speaking of green, I am anxious to see the new OSSA Enduro.
 
I live in new England and am hoping to make a resurgence on the Hare Scramble scene next year. I'm hoping to pick up a Husky WR 125/144 soon and see if I can do some damage. KTM has a definitive stranglehold on NETRA. I actually raced KTM's for several years and did very well on them but the group think mentality out here is terrible and the notion that you would be at a disadvantage riding anyhting but a KTM really bothers me. Really it's due to lack of other choices, the four stroke craze has died considerably here and save for the YZ 250 or occasional Gas Gas there isnt anywhere else to turn to for a two stroke. When I ask around the race scene to get peoples thoughts on Husky, they all seem to have the same mentality: " If they were any good fast guys would be racing them". If the Husky Dealers really wanted to make some inroads they would take a look at the up and comers in the series and make a run at trying to support them, becuase what wins on Sunday sells on Monday.
 
Evan Murphy said:
I live in new England and am hoping to make a resurgence on the Hare Scramble scene next year. I'm hoping to pick up a Husky WR 125/144 soon and see if I can do some damage. KTM has a definitive stranglehold on NETRA. I actually raced KTM's for several years and did very well on them but the group think mentality out here is terrible and the notion that you would be at a disadvantage riding anyhting but a KTM really bothers me. Really it's due to lack of other choices, the four stroke craze has died considerably here and save for the YZ 250 or occasional Gas Gas there isnt anywhere else to turn to for a two stroke. When I ask around the race scene to get peoples thoughts on Husky, they all seem to have the same mentality: " If they were any good fast guys would be racing them". If the Husky Dealers really wanted to make some inroads they would take a look at the up and comers in the series and make a run at trying to support them, becuase what wins on Sunday sells on Monday.
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We've been down this road before, in the 1990's and 2000's. Husky's only NETRA Enduro championship didn't happen in the Glory Days of Husky domination in the 1970's and 1980's, but in the Cagiva NA 1990's with Kemp Stewart. Husky was gaining ground and faltered in 1997 when it stopped distributing bikes in US. Cagiva USA picked up the standard and by the early 2000's Husky riders were making waves in many local series. A couple of National Enduro Championship near misses. Two HS championships in a row in WNYOA and pee wee ranks full of Husky CR50's. Good bikes and good contingency program sure started to show results. Husky faltered again with no bikes in 2003 and no extension on contingecy, so riders still racing 2001 bikes couldn't qualify, with no replacement bikes availible. Husky stopped importing mini bikes, so hard to build brand loyalty. Kevin Willis made NETRA Enduro AA a few years on an '09 TXC250, so best of luck next year.
 
One year Fred Hose showed up for a Nat,l H.S and 2 weeks later a Nat,l enduro and won both on Husky WR250.Both were in Mass.
 
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